Daily Republican., 1887-09-30
News Summary.


John Pierce, who WAS suspected of
the murder OF Howard Mor roe. Of YELL
low Greek, Tennessee. last Saturday
night, on Wednesday was overtaken in
the road with . friend, Thomas Hender.
son. He was ordered to halt, but turned
on the sheriff and fred three shots, one
of them slightly wount ing Q der uty
sheriff. The posss then opened fire and
Afally wounded Pierce. Henderson
wss slightly wounded, and was subse-
quently lodged In jail for com plicity In
the murder Of Monroe.
Captain Edward Porter, one Of the
quartette charged with swindling the
Government out of $4,000 In tie
"Blind" Patterson fraudulent pension
claim, has been Indicted by the United
States Court Grand Jury in Buffalo,
New York, on charge OF perjury. He
pleaded not guilty. The case of the
other three, Patterson, Mills and Laid.
low went over for the term.
The trouble with the colored men In
Matasorda and Brszoria Counties,
Texas, is believed to be at al end, and
the Houston Light Guards have return
cd homo. Oliver Shepherd, leader of
the rioters, has fled. Two colored men
were killed in Sundays fight.
The concert hall and saloon In New
York, widely known rs "Rarry Hill's,""
wxs finally closed on Thursday. Hill
notified the chief OF police that he had
gone out OF business. He claims to have.
been bounded by the police because he
refused to submit to blackmail.
Mrs. l.. A. Baarcke attempts to light
IN oil stove In Mobile, Alabama, on
wednesday. A servant bad allowed
the fountain TO remain open and the
stove was flooded with Oil. The flames
burst out on all SIDES and Mrs. Baarcke
was 70 badly burned that she died on
Thursday.
The annual statement issued by hi.
dalgo q Co., in Havana, show that the
total production of sugar In 1885 81
will amount to 608 938 tons, which ia
about 20, 600 tons less than the estimates
recently published by the mercantile
papers.
The smoke from the Canadian brush
fires hangs like . dense fog over. the
St Lawrence river, and has practically
stopped all navigation between Mon
treel and Quebec. Even railroad trains
are delay cd, having to "fsel their
way"
The murdered and mutilsted body of
Louiss BlumenthAl, 10 years old, was
found on Wednesday night on the road
side near Houston, Texas. She aad
been criminally assaulted and killed,
while going to or returning fromS
school.
By the fall OF o derrick at the brew
cry of w. j. Lemp, In st. Louis yes
terday, Daniel Dinners was killed, Fer
dinand Newman fatally injured and
four others seriously hurt The men
fell sixty-hve feet.
Information has been received at the
Treasury Department Of the arrival of
the revenue cutter Rush, at Sltka,
Alaska, having in tow Q number Of
British sealing vessels captured In
Alaskan waters
A despatch from Provincetown /,
Massachusetts,, says 1t Is feared that the
whaIer Mary g. Curran, with . crew
of IA men, has been lost In the August
gales on ,he Hstteras whaling grounds.
The President asd Mrs. Cleveland
started on their Western and South
ern trip frt m Washington at 10 O'Clock,
this morning. The first extended stops
will be at Indianapolis to morrow.
The house Of Frank Hook, ct Musks-
gon, Michigan, was burned on Tuesday
night, and his three children, aged
from 1 to 5 years, perished in the
flames.